Digital Pick: Sound Byte

Alex Harding, an interaction designer at the British digital agency Made by Many, was documenting a weekend trip with his girlfriend when he had an idea for making smartphone photos better. The result is Picle, a new app that combines basic camera functionality with the ability to record up to ten seconds of ambient sound. Users can create stories from their individual shots—called Picles—which they can then share with others. Picle is to video what text messaging is to phone calls. “I really love Instagram, but I wanted to try something a little bit different this time,” Harding says in a video documenting his invention. “Things that you remember are made up of images and sound bites, like a punch line to a joke, or how loud the first gig you went to was.”

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